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Can We Guess If You Drive a Ford or Chevy Truck?

Zoe Samuel

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About This Quiz

Ford invented the assembly line, and changed the face of the automobile industry forever with its car for the people, the Model T. General Motors, Chevy's parent corporation, helped win World War II by turning its massive factories into the birthplace of American military hardware that rained bombs and bullets on the Nazis. Over the years, we have all been bombarded with aggressive branding by the carmakers: See the USA in your Chevrolet. Built Ford Tough. Etc. Ford and Chevy have both portrayed themselves as vehicles for the working man, with both having corporate cousins who make more or less the same cars and trucks, but with a luxury spin. You won't find Lincoln making a fancy F-150, but it does make a Fusion with nicer leather, and the Escalade from Cadillac is essentially a fancy Chevy Suburban.

Can these two "working man's" brands really differentiate themselves? How does Chevy or Ford pry customers from the herd and turn them into rabid, brand-loyal enthusiasts? If there is a secret sauce, perhaps it can be distilled into a few key factors. Take this quiz, and based on your answers, we will guess if you're a Chevy truck owner or a Ford truck owner.

When do you replace your own household appliances?

As soon as the new one comes out

When getting and running the new one costs less than running and maintaining the old one

Throwing heavy things in the bed, and by "throwing" I mean actually throwing

Letting things fall out of the bed

Crashing into things with it

How old is the cellphone in your pocket?

Less than a year

18 months

2.5 years

3+ years

If you could get a self-driving feature for your truck that would always be on, would you get it?

In a hot second

Probably

Maybe

I don't think so.

How often do you go shopping for work clothes?

Once per season

2 or 3 times a year

About once a year

When my clothing begins to fall apart

How easily can your truck be totaled?

It's not hard to break the frame.

A hard enough bash will do it.

I'd need to really bash it to total it.

I'd need to blow it up to total it.

What kind of jacket do you wear to the workplace?

A suit jacket

A blue blazer

An army jacket

A jeans jacket

What do you need to fix dents and dings on your truck?

A professional

Some dry ice

A can of compressed air and a hair dryer

A plunger

If Apple made a screwdriver set, how likely is it you'd buy one?

I'd definitely buy one.

I can see myself buying one.

I'd buy one if they had some kind of special screwdriver, like some new kind of Torx.

No. Absolutely not.

Through which of these environments would you not want to drive your truck?

Anything not a road

Mud

Deep water

Deep snow

Which of these hypothetical apps would you want for your work use?

Augmented Reality overlaying blueprints on a structure

A music streaming app that picks music based on ambient noise

App that identifies screws by taking a photo

Rangefinder for measuring things

What don't you like about your truck's infotainment system?

The screen interface

Everything

It's a little laggy.

I have to take my eyes off the road to interact with it.

What's the worst injury you've personally had on the job?

Paper cut

Jammed finger

Broken leg

Skull fracture

Can you change your truck's air filter?

No, I pay people for that.

I'm sure I could if I could find a video about it on YouTube.

Yes, I know how to do that.

Yeah, and if there's oil on it, I can fix the source of that.

What's the worst kind of injury that's likely at your workplace?

Injured reputation

Injured pride

Laceration

Broken hand

How are you at driving stick?

What's that?

I did it ... once.

I know my way around a manual.

I can hill start a Mack Truck.

What is the telltale physical sign of being someone in your line of work?

Sore neck

Bad breathing

Calloused hands

Bad back, with age

Which other vehicle do you drive?

A Mercedes C-Class

A Lexus IS

A GMC Acadia

A Cadillac ATS

What part of your body has been strengthened by your job?

My wrists

My legs

My arms

My back

If you couldn't own a Ford or a Chevy truck, to which of these brands would you turn?

Nissan

Dacia

Toyota

Dodge

How often do you use your truck for towing?

Every weekend!

Never

About once a month

5 days a week

If not a pickup truck, what would you use as a work vehicle?

A sedan

A hatchback

An SUV

A van

What do you usually end up towing with your truck?

My jet ski!

A U-Haul

Other motor vehicles

A flatbed trailer

With what do you cover the bed of your truck?

A hard cover, making it like an SUV

I use a hard bed cover I can fold up.

I throw a tarp over it.

Nothing

How often do you actually fill your truck's bed?

Never

I've done it exactly once.

A couple of times a month

Every day

What living thing might go in the back of your truck?

My friends, when we barbecue

The catch of the day

My dog

My coworkers

When your truck's bed is full, what is it usually full of?

People hanging out

Shopping bags

Building materials

Trash

Would you buy your model of truck again?

Yeah, but I'd get a fancier one

Probably. I'm used to it.

Almost certainly. It's so wonderful.

The only thing that would stop me is some new technology overtaking the whole internal combustion engine thing.

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